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Revolutionary Workers' Patrol, Moscow, November 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #17 Revolutionary Workers' Patrol, Moscow, November 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #17
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 20211 min read
Hostile Whirlwinds: The Civil War and the Russian Revolution
A Soviet look at the life-and-death struggle against foreign intervention and counter-revolution that gripped the lands of what was to...
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 202122 min read
Armored car arrives at Smolny to support the Revolutionary Military Committee, October 25 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #16 Armored car arrives at Smolny to support the Revolutionary Military Committee, October 25 1917 --...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20211 min read
V. I. Lenin on the Presidium of the X Congress of the RCP(B) Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, 1920
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #15 V. I. Lenin on the Presidium of the X Congress of the RCP(B) Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, March,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20212 min read
Group of soldiers in Petrograd who went over to the side of the February Revolution, 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #14 Group of soldiers in Petrograd who went over to the side of the February Revolution, 1917 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943
Decisive moment in the victory at Stalingrad. On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20217 min read
Women's rally in Petrograd demanding equal voting rights, March 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #13 Women's rally in Petrograd demanding equal voting rights, March 1917 - Photos of Revolutionary Russia...
Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Funeral march for the victims of the February Revolution, Petrograd, Nevsky Prospect, March 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #12 Funeral march for the victims of the February Revolution, Petrograd, Nevsky Prospect, March 1917 --...
Michael Laxer
Jan 23, 20211 min read
M.I. Kalinin talks to workers of the First Squadron of the Red Air Fleet, Moscow 1920
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #11 M.I. Kalinin talks to workers of the First Squadron of the Red Air Fleet, Moscow 1920 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Red Army May Day Parade on Red Square, 1920
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #10 Red Army May Day Parade on Red Square, 1920 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #10
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Lenin: "It is doubtful if in all history any man's hand left as deep a mark upon the world."
Editorial from The Liberator Magazine in honour of Lenin's death January 21, 1924 V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the funeral of Sverdlov....
Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Kalinin speaks at a rally, 1919
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #9 Kalinin speaks at a rally, 1919 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #9 Mikhail Kalinin was one of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Amílcar Cabral, assassinated January 20, 1973
"In our present historical situation...there are only two possible paths for an independent nation: to return to imperialist domination...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Red Army volunteers line up at a recruitment centre, Petrograd 1918
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8 Red Army volunteers line up at a recruitment centre, Petrograd 1918 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20211 min read
Dmitriy Furmanov with the propaganda brigade of the Chapayev division, 1919
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #6 Dmitriy Furmanov with the propaganda brigade of the Chapayev division, 1919 -- Photos of Revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20211 min read
Patrice Lumumba assassinated January 17, 1961
Image from a Cuban poster of solidarity with the Congo To my sons, whom I am leaving and whom, perhaps, I shall not see again, I want to...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20211 min read
The Red Army enters Kazan during the early Civil War, 1918
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #5 The Red Army enters Kazan during the early Civil War, 1918 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #5 The...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20211 min read
Meeting of young communards in Tula w. Sergei Khaibulin, an activist of the Children's Proletkult
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #4 Meeting of young communards in Tula. Sergei Khaibulin, an activist of the Children's Proletkult,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20211 min read
The Hour of the People Has Come: Spartacus League Manifesto
In the lead up to the revolutionary wave that swept over Germany in January, 1919, this manifesto was issued by Clara Zetkin, Rosa...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20212 min read
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